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“We are Muslims, not Islamists,” the new prime minister of Morocco, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, declared several days ago. In so doing, she aligned herself with a common assumption throughout the Western world — that Islam is benign and should be welcomed, while Islamism is the political, supremacist, and violent imperative that the West must resist, or else cease to be the home of free societies.
This distinction is taken for granted all over. Yet in reality, the gulf between Islam and Islamism is not nearly as wide as many non-Muslims assume. Despite Fatima Ezzahra’s confident assertion, the distinction between Islam as a religion and Islam as a political system that is radically incompatible with Western secular and pluralistic society simply does not exist in Islamic theology or law.
That means that while Baptists and Methodists and Catholics and the rest can read the sign on the front of the church and know whether or not it is one of theirs, there are no signs in front of mosques that say that it’s an “Islamist” mosque as opposed to an ordinary “Islamic” mosque. Although many non-Muslims would like to think that Islamists and Muslims remain far apart and have little or no contact with one another, and even that mutual animosity marks their relationship with each other, in reality, Islamists move among peaceful Muslims with no problem. No one objects to their presence or insists that the mosque they’re in is all about peace and tolerance, and that they should find another place to pray.
This matters because many in the U.S. and Europe today believe that while we should resist the spread of Islamism, we need not have any concerns about Islam itself. The Economist several weeks ago even went so far as to run an article entitled “Islamism is a threat to Britain. Islam is not.” Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri would seem to agree.
And yet not only do peaceful Muslims make no effort to keep “Islamists” from attending their mosques and schools, but what the West thinks of as “Islamism” actually has deep roots within Islam itself. Among the Sunnis and Shi’ites and Wahhabis and Ibadis and all the various sects, branches, and schools of jurisprudence of Islam there is not a single one that does not teach that Islam is a political and legal system, and indeed, one that is divinely revealed, and hence perfect, and to be implemented everywhere. And that political and legal system denies equality of rights to non-Muslims and women, denies the freedom of speech, allows for women to be beaten, and more.
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PRCS USN (ret) says
https://occidentaljihadist.com/2026/08/26/my-crusade-against-the-term-islamism/
My Crusade against (the term) “Islamism”
mgoldberg says
Think of all the homicidal slaughters across the globe just since 9/11… was there ever a tens of thousands muslims march against the violent Jihad- ever?? You get a few muslim individuals but never the mass marching against the Jihad. None that I can recall. After Oct 7th, this horrendous slaughtering of men women children, raping women and men, kidnapping and butchering- was there ever a mass march against the Jihad? No. There were concerted marches to ‘Free Palestin’ and support the Intifada. And this is world wide. I should correct myself though; there were marches calling for the end of Islamophobia many times.
Huh!?! says
There is only one: Islam. The rest is blather. The Left and Islam have effective con artists.
Westman says
There are two kinds of Islam in practice, compliant and noncompliant, yet only one in requirements placed upon the, “believer”.
ploome says
you ask
“What’s the REAL Difference Between Islam and Islamism?”
the spelling
Billy says
Islam’s Muslims are Terrorists of Allah against Non-Muslims with Muslim discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught from Islamic Law and from Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Islam is the daily practice of Islamic Law, Sharia, which is created from the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, the Tafsir, the Tarikh, past Islamic Legal Rulings, etc., a collective demonic system, to solidify power and control. Furthermore, Muslim Islamization includes Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations using Governments, Bureaucracies, Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Halal Organizations, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, Muslim Non-Profits, etc. to fund, to educate, and to support Islamic Law and Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51, 101, 118; 5:3, 44-48; 8:60, 45:18; 48:29, etc.). Stop Public Funding of Islam and its Organization because they are against the West’s Constitutions. Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Public Funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Totalitarian Islam and its Muslim Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, rape, violence, totalitarianism, and terrorism against Non-Muslims to make Islamic Law supreme WITH NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
somehistory says
The “difference” exists only in the minds of some people….the people muzzies have convinced to believe there is a difference.
They use the same book of demon filth, they all bend their knees, back, and head to the same demon ‘god’ and they all worship the same disgustingly evil fake ‘prophet.’
Walter Sieruk says
Two pseudo words are ‘Islamism” and “Islamist” that had made up after September 11th 2001 in order not to offend non-violent peaceful Muslims. As for the later made up word “Islamist,” the term should be used is Muslim terrorist.
It’s very important to call individuals and religions for what they really are .Therefore, the real word is “Islam”. As the devout Muslim President of Turkey, Erdogan, rightly, declared “Islam is Islam.”